https://thecritic.co.uk/lawlessness-is-contagious/ Alas, this isn’t limited to the roads. A similar picture is playing out in many different areas of society. Retail businesses are slammed with high rates and employment costs while the shop next door employs illegal workers and flouts trading standards at will. Tax payers are fined for submitting a few days late while others fail to register at all. Planning permission is ever more complicated while travellers set up sites and even businesses with impunity. Workers have to work harder and harder to afford the essentials of life while others simply help themselves and walk out of supermarkets unchallenged. The inevitable result is mass non-compliance. Having worked in economic development across sub-Saharan Africa I have seen the challenges of a low trust society: an economy weighed down by high security costs, uninsurable risks and uncertain contract enforcement while the government passes endless rules that never become anything more than words on a page. Through our aid budgets we have spent decades and billions of pounds trying, and largely failing, to understand how one builds a higher trust society. What we do know is how to destroy one. Unless laws are visibly enforced and everyone can see they are being treated alike, we are on the road back to Kampala.